SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 46 53
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing SAP 78 78 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.13% 4.19% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 8.73% 9.74% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 38 61
10th Percentile £362 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -3.83% +8.80%
75th Percentile £703 £682 £719
90th Percentile £728 £843 £838
Central London median daily rate £640 £563 £581
% change year-on-year +13.78% -3.23% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 - -
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.19 - -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 893 801 1,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.27% 43.04% 42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 486 726
10th Percentile £338 £305 £310
25th Percentile £413 £459 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £20.02 £55.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £76.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +489.47% -7.78%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 - £54.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -8.23%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 1 - -
SAP
Central London

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (38.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.69%) SAP EWM
3 4 (5.13%) SAP CO
3 4 (5.13%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (3.85%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (3.85%) SAP PM
4 3 (3.85%) SAP PP
4 3 (3.85%) SAP QM
5 2 (2.56%) NetSuite
5 2 (2.56%) SAP MM
5 2 (2.56%) SAP Retail
5 2 (2.56%) SAP WM
6 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.28%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (1.28%) SAP HR
6 1 (1.28%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.97%) Azure
1 7 (8.97%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.85%) AWS
3 3 (3.85%) GCP
3 3 (3.85%) OCI
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (2.56%) Boomi
4 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.56%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.56%) IaaS
4 2 (2.56%) iPaaS
4 2 (2.56%) SaaS
4 2 (2.56%) Serverless
4 2 (2.56%) Textract
5 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) Power BI
2 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.85%) Metadata
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.56%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.56%) Looker
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.56%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.56%) Tableau
5 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.28%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.28%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.28%) Postman
2 1 (1.28%) Selenium
2 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.28%) TestRail
2 1 (1.28%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (38.46%) Finance
2 25 (32.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Legal
5 6 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (6.41%) Billing
6 5 (6.41%) Marketing
7 4 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.85%) Law
8 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Electronics
9 2 (2.56%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Retail
10 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) Consultant
2 12 (15.38%) SAP Consultant
3 11 (14.10%) Architect
4 9 (11.54%) Lead
4 9 (11.54%) Project Manager
5 8 (10.26%) SAP Architect
6 7 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.69%) Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Senior
8 5 (6.41%) Business Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) SAP Manager
8 5 (6.41%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.13%) SAP Project Manager
9 4 (5.13%) SAP Trainer
9 4 (5.13%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Trainer
10 3 (3.85%) SAP Business Analyst
10 3 (3.85%) SAP CO Consultant
10 3 (3.85%) SAP FI Consultant
10 3 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (5.13%) Middleware
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.85%) XML
4 2 (2.56%) boto
4 2 (2.56%) HTML
4 2 (2.56%) NumPy
4 2 (2.56%) Pandas
4 2 (2.56%) REST
4 2 (2.56%) SAP Basis
4 2 (2.56%) Web Services
5 1 (1.28%) Faiss
5 1 (1.28%) IDoc
5 1 (1.28%) LangChain
5 1 (1.28%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.28%) Playwright
5 1 (1.28%) PySpark
5 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.28%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.41%) FMCG
1 5 (6.41%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.85%) Life Science
2 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.28%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) IPTV
4 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) New Media
4 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.28%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.64%) Migration
2 17 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 16 (20.51%) ERP
4 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (11.54%) Data Migration
6 8 (10.26%) Agile
6 8 (10.26%) Project Management
6 8 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.97%) ETL
7 7 (8.97%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.97%) Validation
8 6 (7.69%) Asset Management
9 5 (6.41%) AI
9 5 (6.41%) Analytics
9 5 (6.41%) Business Process Analysis
9 5 (6.41%) CRM
9 5 (6.41%) Logistics
9 5 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.54%) SQL
2 4 (5.13%) Python
3 2 (2.56%) ABAP
3 2 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (1.28%) C++
4 1 (1.28%) Java
4 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.28%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (7.69%) Degree
2 5 (6.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.85%) PMP
3 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.28%) ACCA
5 1 (1.28%) APMG
5 1 (1.28%) PhD
5 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) GAAP
3 3 (3.85%) QA
4 2 (2.56%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) IFRS
4 2 (2.56%) PMO
5 1 (1.28%) Basel III
5 1 (1.28%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Oracle
2 8 (10.26%) Workday
3 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.97%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
5 2 (2.56%) Ariba
5 2 (2.56%) Google
5 2 (2.56%) Informatica
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.28%) IFS